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A quarter of all carnivorous plants are threatened

Examples of threatened carnivorous plants. (Image: Robinson / Krueger / Fleischmann) A quarter of all carnivorous plant species are threatened with extinction worldwide, according...

Stratification of the oceans is getting stronger

Two water masses meet here in the ozone, but vertical stratifications are much more important. (Image: Jiang Zhu) The oceans are important actors in...

Dispute over pterosaur “feathers”

How far back did the evolution of the spring go back? Whether the pterosaurs also had archetypes of this structure plays an important...

Locusts navigate with a double solar compass

Desert locust with an indicated polarization pattern of the sunlight. (Image: Keram Pfeiffer) Desert locusts sometimes migrate several hundred kilometers. As researchers have...

Featured picture: Glittering fat crystals

The green rhinestones in the photo are anything but valuable: They are so-called fat crystals. In the human body, they can trigger chronic...

The “truffles” of the bonobos

Together with the common chimpanzee, the bonobos represent our closest relatives in the animal kingdom. The truffle-like mushroom can be seen in the...

A first cell atlas of our heart

Human heart muscle cells grown from stem cells (Image: Sebastian Diecke / MDC) Our heart is a complex organ - the engine of our life....

Dust caused Betelgeuse to darken

The strong plasma eruption (left) from Betelgeuse turned into a cloud of dust that obscured the view of the star. (Image: NASA, ESA,...

Bats: Intergenerational Climate Adaptation

Great Noctule (Image: Anton Vlaschenko) Adaptation to climate change: Great noctule bat - one of the largest native bat species - shift their wintering areas...

Bird mummies: wild animals or farmed animals?

A sample is taken from a mummified buzzard. (Image: Romain Amiot / LGL-TPE / CNRS) They symbolized the gods Thoth and Horus: ibises and...

Bird brain secrets revealed

Researchers have looked into birds' brains. (Photo: Tobias Machts / University of Tübingen) On the trail of amazing bird intelligence: Two studies now shed...

Neanderthals: Replaced Y chromosomes

For the first time, the Y chromosome of Neanderthals and Denisovans could now also be examined. (Image: MPI f. Evolutionary Anthropology) New trace of...

How vaccination and immunity affect the pandemic

The further course of the corona pandemic is still open. (Image: matejmo / iStock) When it comes to predicting the future development of the...

Teamwork to success: How rats work together

One of the test rats, the colored marking facilitates their tracking in the labryinth. (Photo: Péter Palatitz / Máté Nagy) Concentrating on your own...

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